Astronomy and Cosmology

I think the smart place to start would be to send out an outer ring of radio satellites into orbit around objects on the outer reaches of the solar system in sequential spherically communicating ring of and radio boosters with an prerecorded pulse system that only signals in Pie numbers so anything picking it up and understood a system of mathematics in our level of understanding would know this was the real thing and they were making first tentative communications with another form of life and all that means in the very understanding of the nature of not only our history our present our future our place in the wild west that is the cosmos and the very nature and origin …

Hello, I recently wrote a paper (which I present here ) suggesting which star has the highest probability of being the source of the WOW! Signal. Do you think that we should reply to the WOW! Signal or not?

Looking at our own plant, every natural element serves a purpose. There is no natural "thing" on our planet (perhaps with the exception of humans) that do not serve a purpose. I imagine the universe should be the same and for the most part it appears so but what is the purpose of lifeless planets? They must serve a purpose in the universe or else they would not exist. They cannot be an "incomplete process".

A UCSB site says, " However, the Earth is actually moving sideways compared to the center of the Sun at 3 km/second...." Normally "sideways" refers to the forward orbital direction, which is at 29.79 km/s, so I am assuming this is the velocity towards the center of the Sun due to gravity, that is offset by the acceleration in a stable orbit. Is that correct? And how does one calculate that sideways velocity for any planet? Thanks.

Isn't there a location in the universe, that everything is moving away from? Sort of an expansion "ground zero"?

It seems very counter intuitive that galaxies should be separating from each other at velocities that are proportionate to distance. But this is what we observe ,it seems. Does this imply that ,at an early stage all the matter that formed those galaxies "talked to each other"? What did they "say"?😉

(Hope this is the right subforum) Really a question about waves,particles and fields wrt electromagnetism. I understand that light propagates as a wave in the Electromagnetic Field and think I am also coming to realise that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) may well be such a field and a primordial one at that. So,this is what I am wondering (and my question) When light propagates through the vacuum as a wave in the EM field can we say that it is propagating through this CMB(field) ? Is the vacuum (in this instance) the CMB field? As a second related question,how does one detect the CMB field if it is the same in al…

Is there any connection between the Cosmic Background Radiation and Dark Matter. Dark Matter apparently accounts for a lot of the overall matter in the Universe.. Should its presence be evident in the analysis of the CBR ? Or would its temperature profile around the time of the BB be indistinguishable from that of ordinary matter? Are there any other ways analyses of the CBR could shed light on the DM mystery?

Scientists theorize that there may be a big subterranean ocean of liquid salt water on Europa, and there is a proposal to send a space probe which could drill down to it. In such an ocean there would be presumably no light, and I don't know if there'd be any CO2 or what temperature the water would be, but by introducing autotrophs from our own oceans would it be possible for explorers to start a food chain, gradually introducing higher species culminating in fish? This would permanently give explorers and settlers something to eat, although they'd have to have chips sent up from Earth. Cheerz GIAN 🙂

I have had this theory for almost a decade and want to get this out there so others can share their opinion on it. Please let me know what you think! The nature of the gravitational properties of antimatter can potentially solve 3 of the big puzzles on physics- dark matter, dark energy, and the lack of observed antimatter in the universe. If antimatter has a repulsive gravitation property, meaning that antimatter is repulsive to all types of matter, including antimatter itself, then it would naturally want to be the farthest away from normal matter- galaxies. The theory is that antimatter is spread out through the intergalactic medium, in between galaxies. …

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Could there be a negative dimension / space And as if it worked and looked

I have noticed that bands on Europa contain smaller intricate wave like patterns. I assume that these "waves" were not created after the widening of the spread, but simultaneously. Could these be caused by gravitational waves emitted from Jupiter? What do you think...

whether there can be opposite of the dimension such as time and space and would it still be a dimension?

Theoretically it is somewhat common for particularly dense neutron stars to form a solid crusts, much like a planet's, with any matter that happens to be around them. At these densities, the neutronium between the crust and the center of mass forms a sort of mineraloid structure (known as "nuclear pasta"). I've been curious as to the chemical properties of this as well as the mechanisms responsible. Does the composition of a neutron star's crust effect the formation of nuclear pasta in any way? For example, would it make a difference if the neutron star formed its crust out of ethane or cyclopropenylidene? What if you threw some magnesium or caesium into the equation? I'm…

Precisely what would happen if, suddenly, 87.5% of a given gaseous planet's mass was somehow transformed into pure oxygen, and immediately after, five small asteroids of pure caesium, each possessing a surface area exactly equal to 5% of the gaseous planet's topographic surface area, collided with the newly oxygenated gaseous planet at the same time at equidistant coordinates? Precisely what would be the effects on the astrochemistry and meteorology of the planet, and how would it effect other nearby astral bodies? It's admittedly a vague question with many variables, so I'll provide some specification; according to what we know about the Solar System, what would be the a…

Hi there. I'm writing a sci-fi story for a video game. At some point in time an advanced civilization from the future, say 4010, creates a wormhole for a not so advanced civilization spacecraft in the past, say 2050, to travel through. The idea is for the not so advanced civilization spacecraft to meet the advanced one in its own time, 4010. The question is (theoretically and sci-fi speaking): how many years would have passed for the advanced civilization in 4010 until the not so advanced civilization spacecraft arrived? Its possible that I'm missing some pseudo-scientific data so feel free to complement my reasoning. I hope I made it clear. …

i heard about the phenomenon of rogue black holes which can get ejected when two galaxies collide in certain circumstances these black holes might carry no stars or planets with them and would therefore be invisible, i guess which gave me a frightening thought if one were hurtling through the abyss directly towards us, possibly about to enter our galaxy near where earth is located would we know in advance?

in terms of looking out of the milky way to the other galaxies in the outer universe how much of it can we see from our location in the milky way? for exmaple, imagining the milky way disc was a clock if we are at 6 o clock now ,in the milky way, that if we were at 7 o clock, or 3 o clock we would see a whole different selection of galaxies? or can we already see the full 360 degrees of the observable universe from where we are using the instruments we have? unless you guessed, im no scientist, so go easy please LOL

I know it sounds like freaky, but I haven't found such evidence. I know that Galileo proved the possibility that when the earth moves as an inertial system, this movement may be imperceptible, but the possibility is not proof that this is the case. Similarly, with the reasoning of Copernicus and so on. Meanwhile, the ancient concepts of spheres are very close to what is actually observed, for example, distant stars are almost motionless, and so on. And besides, if we (purely hypothetically) admit the existence of the ether, then the immobility of the earth explains the absence of the etheric wind By the way, were there any attempts to detect the etheric wind…

Normal matter clumps under the influence of gravity, but this is only because of other interactions: normal matter particles collide, loose energy and so get closer to each other. And because of the conservation of angular momentum, structures made of normal matter tend to concentrate in more or less disk-like structures (planetary systems, galaxies). Now we learn that most galaxies are supposed to be embedded in a sphere of dark matter. These are spheres, not disks, because dark matter particles, interacting through gravity only, cannot average out their angular momentum, and so do not form a disk-like structure. So far so good. But if we suppose that dark matt…

I'd like, if I may, to pick up on one issue.. MigL citing a previous post from Joigus, makes this statement: "The gravity produced by a BH is no different from any other equivalent mass". Now, I wonder whether this takes into account, the Black Hole's extremely small physical dimensions. Wouldn't these small dimensions cause a drastic reduction in the BH's ability to exert gravity. Following the diminishing inverse-square law from its outer surface?

Are there any connections between the Black Hole model and this model (is it a model?) of Penrose? Would the latter model imply that there was no singularity at the centre of a BH? Some mechanism whereby all the surrounding forces ,Leonidas- or Dutch- boy- with- finger- in- the -hole of -a -dyke like were held at bay in the smallest of confines.

Hello gentlemen! I recently discovered Sir Roger Penrose's conjecture about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, and I find it very interesting. His claim that there are visible traces of the past aeon (former universe) in the CMB is a very intriguing, but I just can't wrap my head around how a cold, massless, radiation filled universe can turn into a hot dense singularity. Maybe someone here can explain it in layman's terms? What do you think about the CCC theory? Here's a 39 minute video where he explains it. But the step from old to new universe just doesn't click with me.

I can imagine tuning to a channel on tv or youtube live streaming our solar system. There could be multiple satellites working in tandem with each other and each is spread over or positioned at a specific location, presumably around the solar system. That could enable us to switch a specific camera to another.. to get a different view of the solar system, just like in a hockey game. In a hockey game, a couple of cameras are positioned at certain location around the hockey rink. The broadcasting camera changes to another one as depend on a live game. So the satellites could act similar to the broadcasting cameras in the hockey, but with our solar system.